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Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts
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Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Lebanese Ministry of Energy has let three bids for new solar farms of 15 megawatts each, for a total […]

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

09/29/2025 By Human Rights Watch

A Strategy for Controlling an Out-of-Control Government: Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

A Strategy for Controlling an Out-of-Control Government: Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

09/29/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Hizbullah's Candidate becomes Lebanese President after Sunni Compromise

Hizbullah’s Candidate becomes Lebanese President after Sunni Compromise

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Lebanon finally has a president, Michel Aoun. In accordance with the country’s national pact, he is […]

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Iraq
Sectarian Tensions flare in Baghdad as some Sunni Arab families forced from Neighborhoods

Sectarian Tensions flare in Baghdad as some Sunni Arab families forced from Neighborhoods

By Ibrahim Saleh | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Several Sunni Muslim families were forced out of their mainly Shiite Muslim neighbourhood in Baghdad […]

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Green Transportation
Sell that Oil Stock!  Electric Cars are Here

Sell that Oil Stock! Electric Cars are Here

The Tree | – – As fossil fuels fight loud and clumsy battles for continued dominance in countries such as the US, UK, and Australia, […]

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Republican Party
Why a Trump-appointed Supreme Court would mean Workers are Screwed

Why a Trump-appointed Supreme Court would mean Workers are Screwed

By Michele Gilman | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump touts that as president he would be good for American workers. Although many of […]

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Democratic Party
Emails and Groping:  Our Halloween Election keeps Scaring us to Death

Emails and Groping: Our Halloween Election keeps Scaring us to Death

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – All Hallow’s Eve, contracted now to Halloween, became conflated with the Scottish and Irish pagan Samhain, […]

Juan Cole

Islam
“The Meaning of Peace in the Quran” – Juan Cole @ PBS

“The Meaning of Peace in the Quran” – Juan Cole @ PBS

Juan Cole | PBS | Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (Video Interview) | – – Via Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, PBS On my new book, Muhammad: […]

Juan Cole

Islam-hatred
US Veterans' Biggest Battle:  Challenging Islamophobia

US Veterans’ Biggest Battle: Challenging Islamophobia

By Nate Terani | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – I’m not an immigrant, but my grandparents are. More than 50 years ago, they arrived […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Another Saudi War Crime in Yemen as 43 Prisoners dead in Airstrike

Another Saudi War Crime in Yemen as 43 Prisoners dead in Airstrike

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi airstrikes targeting a judiciary building in al-Hudayda, a port on the western coast of Yemen […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli squatter saboteurs cut down 18 Palestinian trees near Bethlehem

Israeli squatter saboteurs cut down 18 Palestinian trees near Bethlehem

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Saturday morning cut down 18 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family in […]

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